Companies must pursue both exploration and exploitation of supplier's knowledge in
increasingly competitive and complex production environments. This has been referred to as …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce and define the concept of purchasing
ambidexterity in terms of two dimensions: balance dimension and combined dimension. The …

Ambidexterity has been gaining attention among supply chain scholars due to its potential
for overcoming trade‐offs. Associated with these complexities is the choice of an appropriate …

Background: Organizational ambidexterity is an emerging concept and it permeates too
many functional domains in the discussion of organizational performance. The importance of …

Some decades ago, the concept of'ambidexterity'was introduced in the theory and practice
of organisation management, but only recently applied to the management of the entire …

The purpose of this paper is to examine how managers can develop 'parallel'supply chains
to overcome the efficiency/flexibility trade‐offs of offshored versus reshored/nearshored …

The focus of purchasing and supply management (PSM) is no longer just on short-term cost
savings, but is also on long-term goals such as innovation and renewal. Because of this new …

Purpose This study aims to introduce a multilevel micro-foundational perspective on supply
chain (SC) ambidexterity, grounded in organizational learning and adaptation research. It …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how a buying organization's desorptive
capacity relative to its supply network enhances the organization's supply chain …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of supply chain complexity and
extend this with literature developed within the project domain. The authors use the lens of …